NYC’s Wes Anderson Art Show

San Francisco’s Wes Anderson-inspired art show “Bad Dads” is leaving Spoke Art—its home of five years—to take residence at NYC’s Joseph Gross Gallery later this summer. The wildly successful exhibition will expand to include the work of over 70 different artists, making it the largest “Bad Dads” show yet. Expect to see portraits of Anderson’s most compelling characters, including the Tenenbaums, the Grand Budapest Hotel’s …

Snarkitecture Fills a Museum With an Ocean of Plastic Balls

Brooklyn-based design studio Snarkitecture has taken over Washington DC’s National Building Museum to transform its ground floor into an ocean of nearly one million translucent plastic balls. The massive ball-pit is part of its latest interactive exhibition “The BEACH,” which mixes the playful vibes of an ocean shoreline with the stark, all-white installations Snarkitecture is known for. Visitors can swim around in the sea of …

Word of Mouth: Lisbon

A bevy of new art, design and cultural enclaves embodying the Portuguese capital

From ritzy new gin-focused resto-bars to a rebirth of artisanal Portuguese craftwork in its truest form, plus endless music, fashion and design, there’s plenty to satisfy visitors to Lisbon. Its safe to say the city is rebounding from the depths of economic despair. With help from local taste-makersAntnio Querido of SeaMe and Daniel Kisluk of Village Underground Lisboa, among otherswe were led past tourist-heavy passages …